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xp cannot format second hard drive
Name: duke Date: November 14, 2001 at 07:28:32 Pacific
Comment:
cannot format second hard drive ide 1 13 gig hard drive master cd rom slave ide 2 4 gig hard drive mster cdrw slave when trying to format 4 gig hard drive format does not complete ends with error whole secondary channel ide is not recognised need to go back in bios and mess with the settings b4 it will even post cdrw works fine when detected it is not a hard ware issue
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